Cultivable Bacterial Diversity in the Gut of the Chagas Disease Vector Triatoma dimidiata: Identification of Possible Bacterial Candidates for a Paratransgenesis Approach
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Citation: Lopez-Ordonez T, Flores-López CA, Montejo-Lopez R, Cruz-Hernandez A and Conners EE (2018) Cultivable Bacterial Diversity in the Gut of the Chagas Disease Vector Triatoma dimidiata: Identification of Possible Bacterial Candidates for a Paratransgenesis Approach. Front. Ecol. Evol. 5:174. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00174 Cultivable Bacterial Diversity in the Gut of the Chagas Disease Vector Triatoma dimidiata: Identification of Possible Bacterial Candidates for a Paratransgenesis Approach
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